The Office for People With Developmental Disabilities (OPWDD) regulates staff training for New York's certified providers — the largest IDD provider market in the Northeast — under Title 14 NYCRR Part 633. The controlling training section, 14 NYCRR 633.8, applies to agencies operating OPWDD-certified residential and non-residential services, and it frames required training around the New York State DSP Core Competencies rather than an hour count.

Under 633.8, initial trainings must support the NYS DSP Core Competencies and cover a defined set of elements: human growth and development, characteristics of the people supported, building positive relationships, prevention/identification/reporting of abuse and neglect together with the relevant laws, incident reporting under Part 624, and safety — including fire safety — plus agency-specific topics tied to the program and the individuals served. Separately, 14 NYCRR 633.14 requires tuberculosis-related training at hire and annually. There is no statewide hour total; compliance is judged on whether each required element is covered and documented.

Ongoing requirements center on an annual cycle: four of the core trainings must be repeated every year, alongside the annual TB requirement and any recertifications attached to specialized roles. For a workforce of any size, the practical burden is proving — per employee, per element, per year — that the cycle happened, which is exactly what OPWDD and Justice Center reviewers sample during surveys and incident investigations.

Two programs are carved out of the open core. Behavioral crisis intervention falls under 14 NYCRR 633.16: only OPWDD's approved curricula — SCIP-R and its successor PROMOTE — qualify, delivered in person by certified trainers with annual recertification. Medication administration falls under 14 NYCRR 633.17: unlicensed staff must be certified as Approved Medication Administration Personnel (AMAP) through the state course, including in-person skills demonstration and annual recertification. Neither can be met online or through a commercial substitute.

Delivery of the core, by contrast, is agency-controlled and format-flexible. There is no state platform, no vendor lock, and no formal generic approval process for 633.8 training — compliance is verified through surveys — and the regulation explicitly permits webinars, videos, and read-and-sign materials as delivery methods. That makes New York's core requirements directly mappable to online coursework, provided the courses cover the regulatory elements and the records can prove it.

Training and eTracking Solutions provides online DSP training built for New York's requirements — courses mapped to the 633.8 elements and the NYS DSP Core Competencies, automatic tracking of the annual four-training repeat cycle and 633.14 TB training, and per-element documentation that stands up in OPWDD surveys and Justice Center reviews. For the carve-outs, TeTS tracks SCIP-R/PROMOTE and AMAP certification and recertification dates alongside the core record, so agencies manage one compliance calendar instead of three.